15/03/2020
THE STORY OF HOW COVID-19 CAME TO DENMARK:
Timeline
COVID-19 cases in Denmark (including Faroe Islands)
Date
Active cases # of cases
2020-02-27 1(n.a.)
2020-02-28 2(+100%)
2020-02-29 3(+50%)
2020-03-01 4(+33%)
2020-03-02 4(+0%)
2020-03-03 10(+150%)
2020-03-04 15(+50%)
2020-03-05 20(+33%)
2020-03-06 23(+15%)
2020-03-07 29(+26%)
2020-03-08 37(+28%)
2020-03-09 92(+149%)
2020-03-10 264(+185%)
2020-03-11 516(+95%)
2020-03-12 676(+31%)
2020-03-13 804(+19%)
2020-03-14 836(+4%)
On 12 March, the criteria for testing was changed, so that only people with more serious symptoms were to be tested. Therefore, numbers before 12 March are not directly comparable to figures of new cases from 12 March onwards.
Sources: Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen)
From late January to early February, several groups of Danish citizens were evacuated from China. All were placed in quarantine and tested; none were infected.
February
On 27 February 2020, Denmark confirmed its first case when a man from Roskilde tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde. He was an editor from TV 2 who had been skiing in Lombardy in Italy and returned to Denmark on 24 February. He had mild symptoms and was placed in home quarantine.
On 28 February, a man who had returned home from a ski holiday in Northern Italy on 15 February tested positive at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and was placed in home quarantine.[14] The case was considered problematic because of the relatively long time that had passed from the person returning to Denmark to him contacting the authorities, increasing the period where he might have infected others and potentially making it more complex for the authorities to locate everybody that had been in close contact with him.
On 29 February, a man who had returned home from a conference in Munich, Germany tested positive at Aarhus University Hospital. Another attendee at the conference in Germany, an Italian man later found to have COVID-19, is the presumed origin of the Danish man's infection. The Dane was an employee of the Department of Dermatology at Aarhus University Hospital. He had mild symptoms and was placed in home quarantine.
March
On 1 March 2020, a person who was already in home quarantine was tested positive. The person had been in contact with the man tested positive on 28 February.
On 3 March, five people that had visited northern Italy and one person that had visited Iran were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. All six were placed in home quarantine.
On 4 March, there were four more cases confirmed in (mainland) Denmark and the first confirmed case was reported from the Faroe Islands (an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to fifteen. All the new cases were placed in home quarantine. The case in the Faroe Islands was a man with mild symptoms that had returned home from a conference in Paris, France.
On 5 March, there were five new confirmed cases. One of the cases was former Danish national football player Thomas Kahlenberg, who had been infected at a birthday party in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This forced the Danish clubs Brøndby and Lyngby, and the Dutch club Ajax to place some of their players and coaches, who had recently met with Kahlenberg, into quarantine. Kahlenberg described his symptoms as similar to a flu and he was placed in home quarantine. On the same date, the first Dane that had been confirmed infected on 27 February also became the first Dane to be declared fully recovered.
On 6 March, there were three new confirmed cases, including one in the Faroe Islands (the second case for this archipelago).
On 7 March, there were six new confirmed cases. Most Danes confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 had contracted it abroad and they had infected a few people in Denmark (there had been no person-to-person spread within Denmark where the source was unknown).
On 8 March, there were eight new confirmed cases, including a patient first admitted to North Zealand Hospital Hillerød with symptoms resembling pneumonia. Another mild case where the patient was placed in home quarantine was the first person confirmed to have SARS-CoV-2 in the North Jutland Region, meaning that all five regions of Denmark now had cases.
On 9 March, there were 53 new confirmed cases, bringing the total in (mainland) Denmark to 90. Among all those infected, six were in hospital, but none of them required intensive care.
On 10 March, there were 172 new cases, bringing the total in (mainland) Denmark to 262. Among the new cases was one patient admitted to hospital, bringing the total to seven.
On 11 March, there were 252 new cases, bringing the total in (mainland) Denmark to 514. One of the cases, who likely had become infected at a meeting where another attendee was infected, caused particular concern because the person worked in a nursing home. As a result, the elderly at the nursing home were isolated in their own rooms, they were closely monitored and tests were being performed. Among all the infected people in Denmark, ten patients were in hospital, including two in intensive care.
On 12 March, there were 160 new confirmed cases, bringing the total in (mainland) Denmark to 674. Among these were two at the nursing home where the elderly had been isolated and closely monitored since the day before because an employee was tested positive. On the same date, former footballer Thomas Kahlenberg announced that he had been declared fully recovered, making him the second publicly known recovery in the country. Whereas many early cases were related to people returning from ski holiday in northern Italy, many cases discovered later were related to people returning from ski holiday in Tyrol in Austria. An 80-year-old man with a history of heart disease tested positive after having a heart attack and dying in the North Jutland Region. Although unclear whether the virus had played a role in it, the authorities counted it as the first fatality related to COVID-19 in Denmark.
On 13 March, there were 127 new confirmed cases, bringing the total in (mainland) Denmark to 801. In addition, the Faroe Islands had their third confirmed case. Among all the infected people in Denmark, 23 were in hospital, including 4 in intensive care.
On 14 March, there were 26 new confirmed cases in (mainland) Denmark, bringing the total to 827. Another 6 were confirmed in the Faroe Islands, bringing the total to 9 in this archipelago. The second person died from COVID-19 in Denmark, in the Capital Region. It was an 81-year-old that was already weakened due to other serious diseases.
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